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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66' [‎273r] (524/541)

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The record is made up of 1 item (278 folios). It was created in 1865-1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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[Bojnbay]
MUNICIPAL.
BOMBAY.
During the first half of 1865 the Municipality was
managed by a Board of three Commissioners under Act XIV.
of 1856 and Act XXV. of 1858.
2. One of these Commissioners was appointed by Go
vernment, and was President of the Board, and the remaining
two were selected by the Bench of Justices.
3. Act XXV. of 1858 provided for raising a fund for
Municipal purposes, which fund, with certain trifling restric
tions, was entirely under the control of the Board.
4. The necessity for a reform in the Municipality had
long been felt by the Government and Her Majesty’s Justices
of the Peace for Bombay.
5. Towards the end of 1863 Dr. Leith was commission
ed by Government to report on the sanitary condition of the
city, and his report of the 29th February 1864 placed in a
most striking and unquestionable light the urgent want of
more effective measures for improving the sanitary condition
of Bombay.
6. Government on the 2nd May 1864 passed a Resolu
tion on Dr. Leith’s report in which it sketched a comprehen
sive scheme for municipal reform. The opinion of the Bench
of Justices was invited, and after much discussion the question
was earnestly taken up by the Honourable Walter Cassels,
then a member of the Legislative Council, who prepared and
introduced into Council a Draft Act embodying the views of
Government, while it endeavoured to deal with almost every
question of municipal administration.
1 MUNI 1
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Annual administration report of the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. during the financial year 1865-66.

The report is divided into the following headings, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

  • ‘JUDICIAL’ (ff 7-30), consisting of: Legislative; Civil Justice; Court of Small Causes; Criminal Justice; Police; Jails
  • ‘REVENUE’ (ff 31-42), consisting of: Land Revenue; Alienated Revenue; Income Tax; Customs, Salt and Opium
  • ‘FINANCIAL’ (ff 43-50), consisting of: Finance; Mint; Paper Currency
  • ‘POLITICAL’ (ff 51-58), consisting of: Political; Kattywar [Kathiawar]; Kutch [also known as Kachchh]; Rewankanta [Rewa Kanthar]; Khadeish; Surat; Sind [Sindh]; Aden; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS’ (ff 59-117), consisting of: Military Army; Ordance; Commissariat; Military Finance Offices; Civil Buildings; Public Improvements
  • ‘PUBLIC WORKS – RAILWAY’ (ff 118-134) consisting of: GIP [Great Indian Peninsular] Railway; BB and CI [Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian] Railway; Sind Railway; Indus Valley Survey; Indus Steam Flotilla
  • ‘MILITARY’ (ff 135-161)
  • ‘PENSIONERS’ COLONY AT CHALLISGAUM [Chalisgaon]’ (f 162)
  • ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’ (ff 163-251). This section gives details on the Mekran [Makran] Coast and Musandam telegraph station. This section also has appendices: A (letter from Colonel Frederic John Goldsmid, Director in Chief of Indo-European Telegraph, and a report by Major Smith on the Island of Angaum [Hengam]); B (a report by Colonel Goldsmid of his journey through Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. [Ottoman Iraq] and Asia Minor [Turkey]); C (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid and reports by himself, Major Smith of the Royal Engineers, and Mr Johnstone, British Agent at Busrah [Basra], of the journey from Ispahan [Isfahan] to Gwadur [Gwadar] to survey the land for connecting the Persian [Iranian] and Mekran Coast land lines of the telegraph); and D (a letter from Colonel Goldsmid with enclosure proposing an alternative land line from Gwadur to join the main Persian line between Bushire [Bushehr] and Tehran).
  • ‘PUBLIC INSTRUCTION’ (ff 252-258)
  • ‘MEDICAL’ (ff 259-260)
  • ‘SURVEYS’ (ff 261-265), consisting of: Revenue Survey; Topographical Survey
  • ‘FORESTS’ (ff 266-268)
  • ‘EMIGRATION’ (f 269)
  • ‘MILLS’ (ff 270-272)
  • ‘MUNICIPAL’ (ff 273-275)
  • ‘ECCLESIASTICAL’ (ff 276-277)
  • ‘COTTON FRAUDS DEPARTMENT’ (ff 278-279)
  • ‘POPULATION, SIND’ (f 280)
  • ‘AGRICULTURE, SIND’ (f 281).

A table of contents listing the headings and sub-headings of the report is on folios 5-6. There are two maps relating to surveys of the Indo-European Telegraph line.

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'GENERAL REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1865-66'
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3r:29r, 30r:41r, 42r:90r, 91r:166r, 167r:235r, 236r, 237r, 238r, 239r, 240r, 241r, 242r, 243r, 244r, 245r:267r, 268r:270r, 271r, 272r:281v
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